The DCA website has been enhanced to include a section that is dedicated to our PinForce users and provides information about new developments in PinForce and how to get the best out of using the products.

To access the PinForce Members section, click here.

DHS has signed a new contract with DCA for the ongoing management, enhancement, and development of the Human Services Directory (HSD). This is a major project which will see HSD become the focal point for all service provider information to HealthSmart, the new e-referral project, and several other initiatives in Victoria. HSD is already being adopted by many of the major public hospitals in both the metropolitan and rural areas and now several major private hospitals are also utilising the HSD information.

DHS has also signed agreements with DCA for the ongoing support of the Drugs and Poisons Information System (DAPIS) and the Notifiable and Infectious Diseases System (NIDS) for a further 12 months. Both of these systems maintain information used in the management of population based health for Victoria.

ResearchMaster are pleased and excited to welcome Deakin University to their client list, joining the growing number of institutions adopting ResearchMaster Enterprise (RME) as the preferred research management system in Australia and New Zealand. A large institution with 32,000 students, Deakin University intends to use the entire suite of RME products to administer and manage their research activities across their multiple campuses.

Users of The Care Manager in Victoria now have the capability to interface to the HealthSmart hospital system using The Care Manager HL7 interface. The interface enables client information to be automatically synchronised with hospital records, improving the co-ordination of care, and reducing data entry associated with entering and updating client records.

The interface is now operational in two major metropolitan health services to synchronise client identifiers and demographic information between hospital and community services. Upgrades planned in forthcoming Release 6.10 will extend this functionality to provide automated notification of admission to hospital. Users of The Care Manager will be able to view hospital inpatient and emergency attendances from within the client history, instantaneously populated from the HealthSmart online interface.

DCA would like to welcome New Zealand's second largest City Council, Christchurch City Council, on board as a customer of PinForce, DCA's successful infringement management solution.

This now means that DCA has as valued customers New Zealand's two largest cities utilising DCA's industry leading solution in Auckland City Council and Christchurch City Council.

DCA also welcomes on board the following customers throughout Australia in recent months:

The Care Manager has signed with the NSW Community Options peak body to provide electronic referral services to be implemented by 15 agencies statewide, using the NSW NSNet e-referral services as a hub for inter agency co-ordination.

Community Options provides case management and direct care services to aged clients living at home. This exciting project, to be implemented during the first half of 2008 will enable secure e-referral between Care Manager users and other organizations participating in HSNet.

For more information on HSNet, click here.